Agile Spring Development with the Spring IDE
Spring emerged as an application framework and can be considered as de-facto standard in the area of light-weight Java EE application development. Still there is one concern people constantly bring up: The XML bean definition files can get quite complex and error-prone during development. This problem has been greatly addressed with the new Spring 2.0 XML Schema-based configuration, but still there is room for improvement regarding tooling support to make Spring development even more agile.
Spring IDE provides support features within the Eclipse platform for Spring Framework development. It gives you handy tools to validate and document your bean definitions as well as support while defining your Spring beans with content assist, wizards, refactoring support and much more."
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